Eleanor Roosevelt served her country faithfully as first lady – but according to a new biography, she was not always faithful to her husband, former President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Feminist historian Blanche Wiesen Cook published the first volume of her biography of Roosevelt in 1992. Critic Maureen Corrigan says the newly released final volume is exhausting and exhilarating.

Eleanor Roosevelt during a radio broadcast in 1948. Volume II, on the Great Depression and New Deal years of 1933-38, continued Cook’s account of the Hick-ER relationship, with its “arc of ...

Eleanor Roosevelt was much more than just the First Lady of the United States. A new book from Simon & Schuster examines 60 years of her personal and professional life.

Pioneering first lady Eleanor Roosevelt got the fully fleshed portrait she deserved in the first volume of Blanche Wiesen Cook's biography, which told the compelling story of a shy, lonely rich ...

In one letter quoted in the book, dated March 5, 1933, the day after her husband’s first inauguration, Roosevelt writes: “Hick my dearest, I cannot go to bed to-night without a word to you.

The author of a book on Eleanor Roosevelt and her father will be at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park on March 9 for a discussion and book signing.

Feminist historian Blanche Wiesen Cook published the first volume of her biography of Roosevelt in 1992. Critic Maureen Corrigan says the newly released final volume is exhausting and exhilarating.

In the new biography “Hick,” author Sarah Miller explores the deeply intimate relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and trailblazing journalist Lorena Hickok.

Feminist historian Blanche Wiesen Cook published the first volume of her biography of Roosevelt in 1992. Critic Maureen Corrigan says the newly released final volume is exhausting and exhilarating.